Local seniors have options for how and where to get moving

Exercise is an important part of overall wellbeing.

Age Well offers community lunches for seniors at eight different venues across the county.

Kirk Webster’s new memoir, “Many Best Kept Secrets: A Wonderful and Unusual Life Around Honey Bees,” grapples with what farming really is.

If life is a highway, then Tom Wells has had quite the 73-year adventure on the open road.

County residents on Medicare Advantage individual plans will all lose their current health insurance for 2026, unless they act soon.

What makes Vermont the healthiest state for older adults? Vermont receives high marks for social and economic factors impacting health as well as for healthy behaviors.

Seniors often face an increased risk of depression, a fact that is commonly dismissed as a natural part of aging. It’s important to recognize that depression is a legitimate medical condition that can be successfully addressed.

Living on a large, rural property doesn’t get any easier as you get older, 87-year-old Joe Roberts said. Realizing he needed companionship and help with keeping the house in good shape, Roberts applied to HomeShare Vermont to find a housemate.

Seven years after Dan and Rebecca Hassan first thought of expanding the 38-bed Vergennes Residential Care elderly living home in the city’s downtown into the 88-bed Vergennes Grand Senior Living complex, the first residents moved into the new facility on … (read more)

Workers are putting the finishing touches on $3.25 million in renovations to Elderly Services Inc.’s (ESI) headquarters off Middlebury’s Exchange Street. The project is already paying big dividends for the nonprofit, which hosts one of the most successful … (read more)

As part of continuing efforts to protect the senior community, the Internal Revenue Service recently issued a warning about the rising threat of impersonation scams.

When it comes to muscle, you’ll lose it if you don’t use it.

As people age, we can see our bodies lose their youthful resilience. What is a little more difficult to reconcile, sometimes, is when our minds become a little less nimble.

Police Chief Jason Covey, with a huge assist from Middlebury PD Dispatcher Elizabeth Tracy, wants to make sure a greater percentage of welfare checks have a happy ending.

MIDDLBEURY — Elderly Services will be hosting a Community Education Series of four informative presentations this fall on topics of importance to both area elders and their families. The series will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 26, and run until Tuesday, Nov. … (read more)